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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Richard Steele
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Richard Steele
Age: 57 †
Born: 1672
Born: March 12
Died: 1729
Died: September 1
Journalist
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Dublin city
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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
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The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
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It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.
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I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
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Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
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It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
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He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
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Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
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It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
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The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
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Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
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